AP IMPACT: Monsanto seed business role revealed

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Sun, 12/13/2009 - 12:22

Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated Press investigation has found.


 

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